Sweden launching its own MI6

The Economist: The new agency is the brainchild of Carl Bildt, a former prime minister, who published a review into Sweden’s spying apparatus last year. It identified a gap in capabilities to explain the failures of 2022. Unlike many of its allies, Sweden lacked a foreign-intelligence service outside the command of the armed forces, and designed to report chiefly to government. While the system was “very good at tracking the military developments on the ground”, Mr Bildt says, “we were not as good at looking at the politics of Russia and where they were heading.” Mr Bildt concluded that this meant Sweden needed a civilian service that could better analyse what Russia’s leaders were thinking…